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From: ToddW@HealthDesk.com (T. Daniel Woodward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSD UNIX on a PowerMac??
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 17:51:33 -0700
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In article <45uc7c$llu@bubba.NMSU.Edu>, jvotaw@nmsu.edu (Joel Austin
Votaw) wrote:

> I missed the earlier part of this discussion, and thus probaly the answer
> to my question... *is* there a port of any BSD to the PowerMac, and, if
> not, will MacBAD (NetBSD for 68k Macs) run under emulation on a powerMac? 
> 

There is MachTen from Tenon Systems, which is a commercial package that
provides BSD Unix on PowerMacs. I haven't used it myself, but I've
scheduled it to be ordered for me at work.

-->http://www.tenon.com/

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